OXYCONTIN Reviews (OXYCODONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.5 (417 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare OXYCONTIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR OXYCONTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | fun | Chills, shakes, insomnia | This drug is taken for a "cheap high" WILL RUIN YOUR LIFE!!!!Myself an dmy husband are VERY addicted to OC every moment that we dont have any we are looking for them, we spend all our money on those stupid pills. We need help and are going to get it. We both tried to stop but the withdrawls are way to bad I cant take it plus to make it even worse is we have a 2 yr old so if we dont have them I cant get through me days taking care of our child and he cant get through a day at work. To think it was all fun in the beguinning I took just maybe one every 4 days to geta little high then they didnt do anything for me I had to up my doses then things started to get bad. I never listened to ppl who were bad into them they would tell me to stop now they will ruin you but i thought ah it wont happen to me but it did. Dont do that to yourself.If you are going through the same e mail me I left it, we are here to talk. | F | 25 | 2 days | 8/10/2008 | 1 | severe daily headaches | My story is just as the 33yr. old that has kids. I've also been on norco. I agree this med is pure evil coming off of and I was even inpatient 10 days! I'm all alone, this bites. Just me and my little Gemma (cat). Wish I never took this crap. | F | 33 | 3 years | 8/8/2008 | 4 | waiting hip replacment | I suffer from dizzy spells, 4 to 5 a day. Is this normal | M | 50 | 2 years | 7/24/2008 | 4 | pleasure. | At first, my body did NOT like the affects oxy had on it. I would throw up, and spend the next two days feeling horrible. and then, it started getting better. DO NOT make a mistake and accidently take too many. oxy is nothing like vicodin, or i believe any other pain medicine that your body may be able to tolorate three or four of. I heard about a man that took 3 and died from it. My father worked with this man. It is not safe to get into, and has the side affects of heroine and cocain. do not get addicted to this drug, its way to easy to. | F | 13 | | 7/11/2008 | 1 | Severe back pain from car accident | consipation, itchy skin, sleepiness but it did relieve my pain.... for a while. | I wish every single day that i had never started taking this drug. Even if u take as prescribed, you will still go through withdrawl if u try to stop. The symptoms of withdrawl are horrible beyond words. You will have hot sweats followed by chilles, awful aches and pains in every muscle in your body, if you think ur back hurt b4 u started taking it... just wait. You wont sleep, you will feel like a "crackhead longing for a fix" and it will begin to consume your every thought. I went so many days without sleeping, I had a seizure. Please, if u have a choice, dont start this medicine unless u plan to be on it until u die or u will wish u were dead. | F | 31 | 1.5 years | 7/11/2008 | 1 | Migraines | This drug is no good for anything. The half-life is far too short for it to be any kind of an affective pain killer. Unless your pain magically goes away after a few hours, this drug is no good for anything except getting high. Longer acting opiates like methadone are much better than oxy for pain releif. Plus, methadone doesn't sky rocket your tolerance in two weeks like oxy does. | Avoid it unless you want to guarantee an addiction. Even if you take it as prescribed, you'll get a tolerance pretty quick and have withdrawals. That's one promise I can make. | M | 28 | 60 days | 6/24/2008 | 3 | Ruptured Disc/Extension Rotation | Very sleepy and itchy, can't keep my eyes open I'm so sleepy. | Took norco for a year and had very mild pain relief from that, switched to oxy contin because I had tried everything else, acupuncture, epidural injections, PT, Chiro, massage..EVERYTHING!! Without meds, totally unable to function because of CHRONIC persistant pain. Just started oxy 4 days ago and am hoping sleepiness subsides. Everyone has a different tolerance/reaction to drugs, you have to weigh the risk vs. the benefit. I personally can't even care for my children without pain control, had to hire a full time nanny the pain was so severe. Doctors are for the most part, idiots..You need to find the right one who understands chronic pain and the meds. Norco didn't make me itchy or sleepy but the pain relief was very moderate and short acting. I wish I didn't have to take pain meds but the other option is to not function, doesn't seem fair as I'm only 33 years old. | F | 33 | 5 days | 6/17/2008 | 5 | Osteonecrosis | Caused constipation, but that can be countered with laxatives. Once I got used to the medication, no other effects really noticed | Wonder medication for helping with severe Osteonecrosis when taken wisely. | M | 34 | 3 months | 6/11/2008 | 1 | sever low back pain | I was in a constant haze. I had awful constipation. I craved the drug when I stopped using it. It is highly addictive. I was on 120 mg per day. | Oxycontin is a very strong drug and should be used with extreme caution. Because of it's side effects and horrible withdrawal, I would not never go back to using this drug again. | F | 37 | 16 months | 6/6/2008 | 5 | SPINE PAIN POST FUSION | Severe constipation. Decreased sex drive. | I took Vicodin for a number of years after my fusion failed and was started on oxycontin during a hospital admit last year. I tried to go back to the Vicodin, but my doctor advised staying on the Oxy because it does not have any acetaminiphen. It keeps me working and 75% pain-free. | F | 44 | 1 years | 6/3/2008 | 5 | Bladder and vulvar nerve pain | On 30 mg per day as directed: constipation easily treated with ducosate sodium, mild edema (swelling) in extremities & face, irritability, most get better in a month. I take the same amount every day. | Oxycodone SE has helped me get a life after 3 years of neurological pelvic pain after cancer & surgery. I got off it after 3 years to take a break and the withdrawal was bad for a week or two. I am back on it now. I still have some swelling and people say I am more irritable, but it treats my pain without making me feel drugged like vicodin or morphine do. It has saved my life and helped my depression by allowing me to work, drive, and exercise again, and at my age that's important. I may have to take it the rest of my life, but at least I'll be around now. | F | 30 | 6 years | 6/1/2008 | 3 | L6 vert; fibro; sciatica; bulg disc | Today is my first day. None yet. | I have been taking MS contin for a little more than 2 mos. I am a different person from it. Negatively. I just got oxy er today, and would have preferred to go back to Lortab, but dr said no for long term use. Can anyone tell me what the comparison there is for the feelings/energy of oxy er 10 mg compared to lortabs 7.5 mg? The ms cont made me docile, depressed, lazy, and tired. The lortabs do not do any of that. So are the oxys gonna be like the lortabs or the ms contins? | F | 26 | 1 days | 5/30/2008 | 3 | Fibromyalgia, Arthritis | Constipaton which lead to a bowel obstuction, complete loss of ability to feel good, dopamine depletion I am told, common side effect of this drug, now lifetime depression. | Excellent pain control. THERE WILL BE A PRICE TO PAY. Most chronic pain sufferers DO NOT abuse their pain meds knowing it is a priveledge in todays world to be entrusted with any amount of narcotic pain control thanks to those lacking responsible respect for pharmaceuticals meant for the suffering. Unfortunately, you will pay a price in so many ways, especially during any ER visit as the room temp will drop 30 degrees the minute you tell them you take oxy. Lawsuit fears are everywhere. Docs not taking patients off oxy since 50% die either from withdrawal or severe gastro-intestinal damage.I discontinued oxy one year ago,withdrawal was pure hell.I took the med exactly as prescribed. Now I am left with severe depression, another price you will pay. Oxy depletes your dopamine production. I now take Norco which does nothing to alleviate my pain. Oxy has it's place for the terminally ill, but I have grave concerns for the chronic pain sufferer. This drug is not the answer no matter how fine | F | 55 | 1 years | 5/25/2008 | 2 | BREAKTROUGH PAIN | CONSTIPATIONS AND GITTERY FEELING | WAS ONLY TAKING 30MG DAILY FOR B PAIN. METHADONE IS MY MAJOR PAIN MED. THE OXYIR ISNT WORKING ANYMORE. NEED TO REPLACE IT WITH MSIR OR DILAUDID....IF DR WILL HELP ME!!!???!!! | M | 33 | 3 years | 5/9/2008 | 4 | Pudendal Nerve Entrapment | Constipation, gas, dry mouth, sleepiness and exspensive. The nerve that is pinched is aggravated by gas and constipation, so if I'm not careful I can put myself in a bad cycle of pain aggravated by the pill's side effects. I take a pericolace with the pills to stop the constipation, drink a FULL GLASS OF WATER WITH EACH PILL and keep sipping water throughout the day. | My condition is so rare, doctors don't know what to prescribe, so I've been through a gamut of pain pills and the oxy has by far been the most effective in dulling the pain. I haven't experienced any withdraw symptoms that have been described on this board, but I also slowly introduced the medicine to my body, starting with just half of 5mg and going to whole one when I got used to the 1/2 dose. I'm supposed to take three a day, but the most I've taken are two full pills in one day and I only take it if the pain is so bad I can't function. If I don't have pain I don't take the oxy. Maybe in a few months I'll be writing about how awful this medicine is, but for now even with the side effects, this is the best for dulling the pain. | F | 39 | 30 days | 4/16/2008 | 5 | Severe chronic pain | None | Thank god for the creators of this drug. It took me from almost totally incapacitated to having a semblance of a life again. | M | 52 | 3 days | 4/12/2008 | 5 | Complications of herniated L 4-5 | Fatigue, confussion, poor concentration, mild depression, moody and physical addiction. | I sustained a central herniated L 4-5, had diskectomy,a week later it re-herniated, had another diskectomy. From that surgery I got a staff infection, it was unbelievably painful; a 12! Couldn’t get rid of the infection which then became a bone marrow infection which was eating away the bone in my spine. A year later, I had another surgery to irrigate the disk space which by now was a puss pocket, I had a fusion. If that wasn’t enough, Dr. put in too large of screws that went into my spinal cord, when I came out of surgery I was in excruciating pain, they thought I had an embolism instead determined screws too long impending on spine, went back in to surgery, and replaced screws. From surgery, left disabled and on IV antibiotics for months. Since then, I can now walk, but walking is exhausting and painful. I typically take 80-90 mgs of oxycontin per day, however, depending on day, make take more or less. I can’t imagine living my life without this med, and as dramatic | F | 45 | 3 years | 4/12/2008 | 5 | fibromyalgia + back/neck injuries | Little bit of constipation - easily controlled by diet, sometimes makes me sleepy | I have been on oxycontin about a year. I can take it 4x a day but rarely do. I take vicodin 10 for break through. Let me be crystal clear * THIS MEDICINE GIVES ME MY LIFE BACK *. It gives my 8 and 2 yr olds a mommy, my husband a wife. When you use pain medicine for actual pain you will not become addicted. Only those who abuse this medicine become addicted to it. I would never even consider taking ANY medication more than prescribed! If I am hurting too bad I call my physician and we figure it out together. If you are in too much pain then go to the ER. I consider myself lucky to have found a medicine that works for me and a doctor who trusts me with it. | F | 32 | 12 months | 4/8/2008 | 5 | Severed spinal cord C5 with 6 crush | Constipation some irritability, insomnia. | I was taking OxiContin for 10 yr. Medicare Medicaid made me change drugs because of the price of OxiContin. highway robbery. I think it's terrible that a drug that works so well yet I am forced to change because the manufacture charges to much. So we are forced into taking medication that doesn't work as well. | M | 45 | 10 years | 3/31/2008 | 5 | RA, herniated disks | dry mouth, constipation, get sleepy, sometimes a little confused | I was able to get out of the bed. I no longer dread each day and night trying to cope with the pain. I am almost pain free. I take 3 to 4 80 of oxy a day plus norco for breakthrough. I am so blessed to have a doctor that truly believed my pain and had the courage to help me. | F | 57 | 2 years | 3/26/2008 |